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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sen·e·schal /ˈsɛnəʃəl/
 管家

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sen·es·chal n.  An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
 Then marshaled feast
 Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.   --Milton.
    Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.   --Hallam.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 seneschal
      n : the chief steward or butler of a great household [syn: major-domo]